PRIOR SERVICE
RE-ENLIST INTO THE SF
TRY ONE CONTRACT
The “Try One” contract was created for prior service members who intend to enlist for the purpose of attending SFAS.
With this contract, you are authorized to enlist for one year, regardless of your military service obligation. You will enlist directly into the 19th’s Special Warfare Training Detachment (SWTD). Here you will be assessed during our monthly drill weekends to determine your readiness for SFAS.
Here you will have one year to pass the 3 day Special Forces Readiness Evaluation (SFRE) and attend Special Forces Assessment and Selection (SFAS).
By the end of the 1 year enlistment contract, if you failed to meet the SFRE requirements, attend SFAS, aren’t selected at SFAS, or quit, you can either end your contract or extend, serving an additional contract in the SF Support or another unit.
Once you have been selected at SFAS, you will be required to extend for an additional 3 years in order to attend the Special Forces Qualification Course.
SPECIAL FORCES QUALIFICATION COURSE
MOS / S.E.R.E
15 WEEKS
- 18A: Detachment Officer Course
- 18B: Weapons Sergeant
- 18C: Engineer Sergeant
- 18D: Medical Sergeant *
- Survival, Evation, Resistance, Escape
(SERE)
SUT / TACTICAL SKILLS
7 WEEKS
- Small Unit Tactics (SUT)
- Advanced Marksmanship
- SF Common Skills
- Urban Operations
- Sensitive Site Exploitation (SSE)
- Military Decision Making Process (MDMP)
ROBIN SAGE
3 WEEKS
- UW Practicum
- Guerrilla Warfare
- Support of a Resistance Movement
- Air Operations
- UW Mission Analysis and Planning
- SF Infiltration and Exfiltration Techniques
- Rapport Building
- Negotiation and Mediation
- Advanced Special Operations Level 1 (PE)
- Language and Culture Application
REGIMENTAL FIRST FORMATION
1 WEEK
- Regimental Indoctrination
- Operational Group Assignment
- Introduction to Group Command Team
- Individual Academic Achievement Awards
- Award of the Special Forces Tab and Green Beret
- Credentialed as an SF Officer or NCO
LANGUAGE & CULTURE
16-24 WEEKS
- CAT 1 & 2: French, Indonesian-Bahasa, Spanish.
- CAT 3 & 4: Arabic, Chinese-Mandarin, Dari, Korean, Pashto, Persian-Farsi, Russian, Tagalog, Thai, and Urdu
- Control of Interpreters
- Progressive PT Program
